What about this version:
Many speech synthesizers allow users to select
from among preset options that control different
voice parameters (gender, pitch range, stress,
richnes, etc.) as a group.
When using these synthesizers, make available
the full range of preset options (e.g., "adult male
voice", "female child voice", "robot voice", etc.).
- Ian
Jon Gunderson wrote:
>
> Charles,
> What happens is that the user agent can enumerate a number of voice labels
> that are typically made available to users as a list of voice
> options. Each voice label has its own pitch range and other voice filter
> parameters that determine the "sound" and "accent" of the voice (i.e adult
> male, child female, robotic...). Usually features like average pitch and
> speech rate can be adjusted within a voice label, but the other voice
> filtering parameters like pitch range, stress and richness cannot be
> adjusted within the label. Therefore the voice label confounds these later
> voice filter parameters since they cannot be adjusted manually, and
> typically if you allow the user to adjust these filters manually they can
> easily set filter parameters that result in unstable speech filters (i.e.
> noise rather than speech is generated). But I would leave it to the
> editors to find the right words.
>
> Jon
>
> At 10:12 AM 11/23/2000 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> >Confound means to me that they make it very difficult. Do you mean compound
> >or combine?
> >
> >If so, this makes good sense to me.
> >
> >cheers
> >
> >Chaals
> >
> >On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Jon Gunderson wrote:
> >
> > I suggest that we do not change checkpoint 4.14 (other than for other
> > resolved changes for adding language), but add the following note after the
> > checkpoint.
> >
> > [NEW]
> > Note: Many speech synthesizers confound the specification of voice gender,
> > pitch range, stress, richness in named voice labels that use pitch range,
> > stress and richness parameters to help create different voice sounds (i.e
> > adult male, child female, robot voice). When using these synthesizers make
> > available the full range of voices.
> > [/NEW]
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